Raymond Colston

Published: Saturday, February 23, 2002

FLOYDADA  Services for Raymond Colston, 81, of Floydada will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Moore-Rose-White Memorial Chapel in Floydada with the Rev. Wendell Horn, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Floydada, officiating.

Burial will be in Floydada Cemetery under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Floydada.

He died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002.

He was born March 28, 1920, in Eldorado, Okla., and moved to Floyd County eight months later. He attended school in the Baker community, graduated from Floydada High School in 1939 and from aeronautics school in Dallas in 1941.

He married Vonceil Woolsey on Aug. 14, 1941, in Floydada. They moved to Dallas, where he helped build bomber planes until June 1943, when they moved back to the Lakeview community to farm. In 1950 they moved to the Baker community and continued farming until retiring in 1979. They moved to Floydada in 1986. He was a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Vonceil Colston of Floydada; a brother, J.B. of Eden; and two sisters, Thelma Fawver of Floydada and Burnice Nance of Grapevine.

The family suggests memorials to the Floydada EMS, 109 N. Main St., Floydada, TX 79235.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.